Today
Has it rained enough in Durban?
Rain soaked in yesterday, and the ground is still holding it.
Durban has had 153.7mm of rain in the last 30 days. That is well above the 64.7mm a normal September brings here, and closer to the wettest on record (191.6mm).
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
15 SeptToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
4 days of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Durban through a normal year
Across a normal year Durban gets about 866.4mm of rain, most of it in January (99.8mm) and least in June (29.2mm).
A normal September in Durban has rain on 12 days. Only 8 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Durban the wettest place this site covers in South Africa in September — 64.7mm against Polokwane's 11.6mm at the other end.
JanFMAMJunJASOND
Average rainfall by month, 1995–2024
What it means
What that means for what you grow
- Pots and hanging basketsWorth checking by hand even so — a pot in the sun can dry out in a wet week, because there is so little soil to hold anything.
- Beds and bordersNothing needed. Watering soil that is already wet does more harm than good.
- New plantingsAnything planted within the last month is the exception; its roots have not spread far enough to find water on their own.